NYSE · META
Technology · Internet Content & Information
$682.31
Down-$16.56 (-2.43%)
Updated Sep 18, 2026, 9:33 PM
SID Score
7.7/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
50/100
Neutral
Price performance
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
META closed at $682.31 after 20 trading sessions, up 25.00% for the selected period.
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | $682.44 | $683.20 | $667.05 | $682.31 | 15.93M |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $679.905 | $685.31 | $671.9142 | $673.31 | 17.22M |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $659.30 | $678.87 | $656.20 | $670.24 | 19.5M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $657.83 | $668.60 | $649.22 | $665.60 | 19.33M |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $653.51 | $664.24 | $646.20 | $648.03 | 16.92M |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $653.705 | $663.50 | $642.14 | $644.38 | 21.53M |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $648.64 | $657.86 | $638.56 | $653.69 | 35.9M |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $616.205 | $624.80 | $609.74 | $613.48 | 18.91M |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $612.35 | $617.46 | $605.27 | $616.77 | 15.97M |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $604.49 | $619.46 | $604.35 | $610.68 | 19.74M |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $578.785 | $600.38 | $577.00 | $592.85 | 16.55M |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $558.345 | $584.95 | $556.10 | $578.54 | 15.8M |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $577.63 | $578.675 | $569.1386 | $572.34 | 13.38M |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $571.55 | $589.19 | $571.00 | $578.02 | 16.04M |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $576.48 | $588.39 | $567.62 | $571.10 | 15.22M |
| Aug 26, 2026 | $590.31 | $593.34 | $561.88 | $576.14 | 31.42M |
| Aug 25, 2026 | $563.88 | $570.80 | $561.4001 | $570.05 | 9.77M |
| Aug 24, 2026 | $550.20 | $561.42 | $546.30 | $559.02 | 12.99M |
| Aug 21, 2026 | $546.885 | $553.8733 | $543.23 | $549.90 | 13.85M |
| Aug 20, 2026 | $546.95 | $549.988 | $539.31 | $545.83 | 13.87M |
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META research
Company profile and research snapshot.
Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.
Visit company websiteConsensus and target data currently published for this company.
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2026 | Citigroup | Buy | — |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Rosenblatt | Buy | — |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Wedbush | Neutral | — |
| Sep 10, 2026 | JP Morgan | Overweight | — |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Wedbush | Neutral | — |
Generated Sep 18, 2026, 5:14 PM
Meta Platforms declined 1.65% today despite a wave of positive developments around its new AI initiatives and subscription services. While the stock faced modest selling pressure, the underlying news flow reveals significant long-term catalysts, including Goldman Sachs' bullish AI outlook and the launch of Meta's AI agent subscription business.
Bottom line: Meta's 1.65% decline appears tactical rather than fundamental, as the company continues building AI capabilities with meaningful commercial potential. Investors should monitor the execution of new AI subscription services and Muse adoption metrics, while remaining cautious about near-term margin pressure from heavy capex spending and regulatory headwinds around content moderation.
Yahoo · Sep 18, 2026
Serial entrepreneurs and investors Mike and Kass Lazerow have taken a controlling interest in Merraine Group, an executive search and staffing firm founded by David Gantshar, who remains CEO. The firm launched Merraine Growth, a practice to help growth-stage companies hire faster.
Yahoo · Sep 18, 2026
Manus AI is in discussions to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation, which would make it China’s most valuable autonomous agent startup. The round is not yet closed and terms remain subject to change, but the deal signals a shift in how the market prices AI agents. If finalized, this valuation would be […]
Yahoo · Sep 18, 2026
Oracle is sitting on a $664 billion backlog while Meta just watched its free cash flow crater by more than 90%, yet both companies are pouring tens of billions into AI compute every quarter with no clear timeline for the cash to follow.
SeekingAlpha · Sep 18, 2026
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Interpretive context generated from the platform’s current data sources.
Meta Platforms shares traded at $682.31, reflecting a single-day decline of 1.32% per SID market data. Despite the session pullback, the stock has demonstrated strong momentum across multiple timeframes, gaining 25.5% over the trailing one-month period and 20.21% over three months, according to Massive/Polygon data. On a twelve-month basis, META has appreciated 5.91%, underperforming broader technology sector peers during the same window. The stock currently trades well above both its 50-day moving average of $606.69 and its 200-day moving average of $626.15, representing premiums of approximately 12.5% and 9.0% respectively. The 14-day Relative Strength Index stands at 87.6, placing META firmly in overbought territory by conventional technical standards. Average daily trading volume registers at approximately 17.47 million shares, supporting a total market capitalization of $1.645 trillion per SID market data.
Meta Platforms currently trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.07, according to SID market data, positioning the company at a moderate premium relative to the broader Technology sector. The price-to-book ratio stands at 8.47, reflecting the market's significant premium over the company's net asset value, consistent with a capital-light digital advertising business model. Per SEC filings, Meta has initiated a dividend program yielding approximately 0.32% at the current share price, representing a modest but notable shift in capital return strategy for the social media giant. The PEG ratio registers at negative 1.55, a figure driven by adjustments in forward growth estimates that complicates traditional growth-adjusted valuation analysis. With a beta of 1.273, META exhibits above-average sensitivity to broader market movements. These valuation metrics collectively place Meta among higher-valued mega-cap technology names in the current market environment.
Meta Platforms registers a composite smart money score of 50 out of 100 with a neutral overall signal, according to SID market data. Institutional positioning reflects maximum conviction at 25 out of 25, indicating broad-based ownership and accumulation among major fund managers per 13F institutional filings. Congressional trading activity scores 15.6 out of 25, suggesting moderate engagement from elected officials in META shares. In contrast, insider sentiment presents a bearish skew, scoring 0.0 out of 25. SEC Form 4 filings reveal 20 insider transactions over the past 90 days, comprising 19 sales against just one purchase, reflecting a heavily sell-weighted disposition among company executives and directors. Dark pool activity registers at 9.0 out of 25, indicating below-average institutional block trading relative to the stock's normal volume patterns. The divergence between strong institutional ownership and persistent insider selling creates a mixed directional signal for META's near-term trajectory based on smart money indicators.
Meta Platforms has delivered a mixed recent earnings record, per company earnings reports. In the most recent completed quarter reported on January 28, 2026, Meta posted earnings per share of $8.88, exceeding analyst estimates of $8.19 by $0.69, representing an 8.4% positive surprise. The following quarter reported on April 29, 2026, continued the beat streak with actual EPS of $7.31 against consensus estimates of $6.67, a $0.64 upside surprise. However, the quarter reported on July 29, 2026, showed a reversal as actual EPS of $6.18 missed the $7.18 estimate by $1.00, marking a significant 13.9% negative surprise. Looking ahead, analyst estimates project EPS of $8.36 for the upcoming reporting period on February 4, 2026, per consensus data. The Q1 miss following two consecutive beats introduces uncertainty into forward earnings expectations for the company.
Wall Street consensus on Meta Platforms remains predominantly constructive, according to recent analyst reports compiled by SID consensus data. On September 16, 2026, Citigroup reiterated a Buy rating on META, while Rosenblatt simultaneously maintained its Buy recommendation, reinforcing bullish institutional conviction. Notably, JP Morgan upgraded META to Overweight from Neutral on September 10, 2026, representing a meaningful shift in sentiment from one of the most closely followed sell-side franchises covering the technology sector. Wedbush has maintained a more cautious stance, reiterating a Neutral rating on both September 14 and September 1, 2026, making it the sole dissenting voice among recent coverage updates. The distribution of ratings shows three Buy or equivalent recommendations against one Neutral stance among the four firms providing recent updates. JP Morgan's upgrade stands as the only directional rating change in the period, suggesting incrementally improving sentiment among analysts covering Meta Platforms.
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